Game of Thrones dominates social media TV chat

HBO’s Game of Thrones is the top-ranked TV programme of 2017 in terms of total interactions per episode across the Facebook and Twitter social media platforms, according to Nielsen.

The penultimate season of the fantasy-epic averaged 2.566 million interactions across the two social networks for each of its seven episodes, nearly tripling the total of the second-placed show on the list, AMC’s The Walking Dead, at 870,000.

The top 10 shows for the year, ranked by average interactions across Facebook and Twitter per episode, were: